European eels make an incredibly grueling, mysterious migration to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.

Dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura) can gulp down young Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) whole, but the swallowed eels can wriggle back up through the digestive tract and out of the stomach ...

Baby Japanese eels have been spotted escaping from the stomachs of fish that have eaten them by backing out tail-first, as if moonwalking, first out of their esophagus and then their gills ...

NAGASAKI—A team of researchers here has captured astonishing X-ray footage of young eels making a dramatic, Houdini-like escape from the stomach of a large predatory fish. After being swallowed ...

Japanese eels try to wriggle back out of the stomachs of fish that have swallowed them whole – and now we know how they sometimes succeed. A few years ago, Yuha Hasegawa at Nagasaki University ...

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X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means ...

Some teenage Japanese eels have found a way to avoid becoming a fish’s next meal. Anguilla japonica eels can escape a predator’s stomach through the fish’s gills. Now, scientists are using X ...

Most people know the Japanese eel in its grilled form: unagi. Unlike many other fish in Japanese cuisine, eel is always cooked. There's a very good reason for this. The animal contains a protein toxin ...

IN BRUSSELS – Controversial issues such as easier migration for under-30s and fishing rights will form part of Brexit reset ...